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- _ACM SIGDOC Mission Statement
- _ACM SIGDOC Officers (effective July 1st, 2010)
- _ACM SIGDOC 2010 Conference Summary
- _ACM SIGDOC 2010 Conference Invited Speakers and Awards
- _ACM SIGDOC Significant Papers
- _ACM SIGDOC Publications
- _Key Issues for ACM SIGDOC in coming year include to
- SIGecom FY’11 Annual Report July 2010 – June 2011 Submitted by: David Pennock, Chair
- SIGEVO FY’11 Annual Report July 2010- June 2011 Submitted by: Darrell Whitley, Chair OVERVIEW
- The 2011 “Human Competitive” Gold Medal Award
- Select Best Papers from the GECCO Conference From the “Genetic Algorithms” Track
- SIGGRAPH FY’11 Annual Report July 2010 – June 2011 Submitted by: G. Scott Owen, President
- ACM SIGGRAPH FY11 Budget Report (Jeff Jortner, Treasurer)
SIGDOC FY’11 Annual Report July 2010 – June 2011 Submitted by: Brad Mehlenbacher, Chair _ACM SIGDOC Purpose The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) on the Design of Communication (DOC) — ACM SIGDOC — emphasizes the design of communication for computer-mediated information products and systems. SIGDOC fosters the study and publication of processes, methods, and technologies for communicating and designing communication artifacts such as printed and online information, documentation designs and applications, multimedia and Web-based environments. _ACM SIGDOC Mission Statement Until 2003, ACM SIGDOC focused on documentation for hardware and software. With the shift in focus from documentation to the “design of communication,” SIGDOC better positioned itself to emphasize the potentials, the practices, and the problems of multiple kinds of communication technologies, such as Web applications, user interfaces, and online and print documentation. SIGDOC focuses on the design of communication as it is taught, practiced, researched, and theorized in various fields, including technical communication, software engineering, information architecture, and usability. SIGDOC • Promotes the professional development of its members • Encourages interdisciplinary problem solving related to online and print documentation and communication technologies • Provides avenues for publication and the exchange of professional information • Supports research that focuses on the needs and goals of humans in technological contexts, and • Supports the development and improvement of communication technologies, including applications, interfaces, and documentation.
• Brad Mehlenbacher, NC State University, USA Chair Awards Chair • Rob Pierce, IBM Rational Software, USA Vice-Chair • Liza Potts, Old Dominion University, USA Secretary/Treasurer Newsletter Editor • Ashley Williams, Bridgeline Software, USA Information Director • Michael Albers, East Carolina University, USA Graduate Competition Chair 2010 Poster Sessions Chair • Junia Anacleto, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2010 Program Co-Chair Brazil • Renata Fortes, Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas, 2010 General Co-Chair e de Computação, Brazil • Carlos J. Costa, ISCTE, Portugal 2010 Program Chair • David Novick, University of Texas at El Paso, USA Member-at-Large • Clay Spinuzzi, University of Texas at Austin, USA Member-at-Large • Manuela Aparicio, Adetti/ ISCTE, Portugal Member-at-Large • Scott Tilley, Florida Institute of Technology, USA Previous Chair • Irene Frawley, ACM HQ, USA ACM Program Coordinator
In 2010, SIGDOC was found viable was found viable for two years to evaluate its decrease in membership and conference participation. The next viability review is in 2012. _ACM SIGDOC 2010 Conference Summary The ACM SIGDOC 2010 Design of Sustainable Communication: 28th International Conference on Design of Communication was partially supported by Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (http://www.sbc.org.br/), Departments of Computing and Nursing, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (http://lia.dc.ufscar.br/), Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (http://www.icmc.usp.br/), Universidade de São Paulo (http://www4.usp.br/), Universidade Federal de São Carlos (http://www2.ufscar.br/home/), and the São Paulo Research Foundation (http://www.fapesp.br/en/). The conference was held at the BROA Gulf Resort in São Carlos/São-Paulo, Brazil, on September 26-29th (http://sigdoc.org/2010/). The Conference Co-Chairs were Dr. Renata Fortes (Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação) and Junia Anacleto (Universidade Federal de São Carlos) and the Program Chair was Dr. Carlos Costa (ISCTE, Portugal). The program committee had 43 members (33 academic and 10 industry representatives). Twenty-six members were from the USA, 10 from Brazil, and single members represented Portugal, Germany, France, Canada, Mozambique, and the UK). The conference cost was approximately $7700.00. The conference call for papers attracted a wide range of papers, experience reports, workshops, and posters on the design of communication and games, organizational contexts, social media, the future of documentation, accessibility, interface design, and learning (http://www.sigdoc.org/2010/node/19). The conference papers were published in the Proceedings of the 28th Conference on Design of Communication (ACM Press). As well, complementing the ACM SIGDOC 2010 conference was IWCSC 2010 (the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Communication for Sustainable Communities). IWCSC (http://iwcsc.com/) was organized by Roberto Calderon (UBC), Vania Paula de Almeida Neris (UFSCar), and Junia Anacleto (UFSCar).
We invited the following speakers to our ACM SIGDOC 2010 Conference this year: Margaret Burnett (Gender HCI: What About the Software?), Claudio Pinhanez (Designing the Interaction with Service Systems), and Rob Pierce (SIGDOC—Reviewing the History from a Company Perspective). Dr. Margaret Burnett is a Professor of Computer Science at Oregon State University and a co-Founder of the EUSES Consortium, a collaboration among Oregon State University, Carnegie Mellon University, Drexel University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Cambridge, University of Nebraska, University of Washington, and IBM, to help End Users Shape Effective Software (EUSES). Dr. Claudio Pinhanez is a research scientist at IBM Brazil and got his PhD. from the MIT Media Laboratory in 1999, working on the design and construction of interactive environments. He has also been a visiting researcher at ATR-MIC laboratory (Kyoto, Japan) and Sony Computer Science Laboratory (Tokyo), and a featured artist at the NTT ICC museum in Tokyo. In 2003, Dr. Pinhanez was nominated the Most Promising Scientist with a Graduate Degree award by the Hispanic Engineers National Achievement Awards Conference (HENAAC). Rob Pierce is Vice-Chair of ACM SIGDOC and an Advisory Information Developer for IBM Corporation’s user assistance team lead for Rational Asset Manager. He has a B.A. in Computer Science from Indiana University, Bloomington, and a Graduate Certificate in Software Technical Writing from Middlesex Community College, Bedford, Massachusetts. In addition, every other year, the ACM SIGDOC Board honors an individual or individuals with the Rigo Award (named after Joseph Rigo, SIGDOC’s founder). The award celebrates an individual’s lifetime contribution to the field of communication design, and we were delighted to announce this year that the 2010 co-recipients of the award were Dr. Maria Cecilia Calani-Baranauskas and Dr. Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza. Dr. Baranauskas is Associate Professor at the Institute of Computing, IC, at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil, and is known for her instrumental role in bringing human-computer interaction (HCI) to Brazil (including organizing the first national conference in HCI held there). Her research interests have focused on HCI and particularly on the relationship between semiotics, participatory design, and collaborative learning systems. Dr. de Souza is Professor of Computer Science at the Departmento de Informática, PUC-Rio, Brazil, and started the first graduate program in HCI in Brazil. She has published or co-published several books on semiotic engineering and HCI. As well as being pioneers in HCI, Dr. Bananauskas and Dr. de Souza have been instrumental in bringing an international presence to HCI and for working to strengthen research ties across borders.
Martins, Oliveira, and da Graca C. Pimentel published “Designing the user experience in iTV-based interactive learning objects,” Kelly, Abbott, Harris, and DiMarco published “Toward an ontology of rhetorical figures,” and Flores, Miletto, Pimenta, Miranda, and Keller published “Musical interaction patterns: Communicating computer music knowledge in a multidisciplinary project.” Numerous notable papers on socio-cultural influences connected to the management and use of social media were published in this year’s conference proceedings. These papers, in particular, highlighted the multidisciplinary nature of ACM SIGDOC’s objects of inquiry, methodologies, and media applications.
Since 2009, Liza Potts has served in the position of General Editor of ACM SIGDOC’s Quarterly Newsletter from Rob Pierce who served as editor for 9 years. Release of the newsletter is announced each quarter via the ACM SIGDOC members’ listserv and is available in general via the ACM SIGDOC website (http://www.sigdoc.org/newsletter/current/). Archived versions of past newsletters are also available (http://www.sigdoc.org/newsletter/archives/). The newsletter consists of news from members (notes from the chair and from the general conference chair), future conference information, interesting items, feature articles, and job market information. Also, ACM SIGDOC expanded its membership communications by creating a print brochure last year and has been distributing it at related conference events and to strategic university departments (for example, University of Washington and MIT). Finally, ACM SIGDOC is actively engaged in various social media spaces (for example, Facebook, LinkedIn, Ning, Slideshare, Twitter, and Wikipedia).
ACM SIGDOC currently has 184 members and this number has been dropping for the last several years. The SIGDOC Website now explicitly details the benefits of joining SIGDOC (http://www.sigdoc.org/join/) in addition to encouraging existing members to volunteer (http://www.sigdoc.org/members). The SIGDOC Board continued to focus on strategies for addressing membership numbers. We agreed to aim at encouraging greater graduate student/campus involvement, to establish international collaborations and membership, and to reach out to the broader communities of writers, information engineers, technical communicators, and information technology professionals working with information. As well, conference planning for the next several conferences is currently ahead of schedule, reflecting our commitment recruiting new volunteers and future board members.
SIGDOC currently has two very active chapters: EuroSIGDOC: ACM SIGDOC European Chapter and (http://eurosigdoc.acm.org/) and SIGDOC at NC State University (http://ncsu.orgsync.com/org/sigdoc). EuroSIGDOC hosted a Workshop on Open Source and Design of Communication (OSDOC2010) in Lisbon, Portugal, on November 8th, 2010 (http://eurosigdoc.acm.org/osdoc2010/). _Key Issues for ACM SIGDOC in coming year include to • Support our new SIG chapters (Europe and NC State University), and to develop policies for managing them effectively and for increasing SIG chapter activities. • Complete an ACM SIGDOC Board wiki for sharing experiences and lessons learned in previous conferences into current and upcoming conferences. • Serve the needs of our current members and to find ways to increase our membership by attracting new members, volunteers, and board officers. SIGecom FY’11 Annual Report July 2010 – June 2011 Submitted by: David Pennock, Chair SIGecom's three primary activities are its annual Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), its electronic newsletter SIGecom Exchanges, and its new journal, ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation (TEAC). The Twelfth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC'11) was held June 5-9 2011 in San Jose, CA in conjunction with ACM FCRC. Over 182 people attended, second only to last year's record attendance, a great showing considering that official attendance is often down in FCRC years. The healthy attendance combined with substantial corporate support, including from eBay, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo!, made this a financial as well as a technical success. The conference attracted 189 submissions from authors in academia and industry around the world. After discussion and deliberation among the program committee, senior program committee, and program chairs, forty-nine papers were selected for presentation at the conference. Thirty-eight of these are published in these proceedings. The remaining eleven, at the authors' request, are abstracts with pointers to full working papers. This option accommodates the practices of fields outside of computer science in which conference publishing can preclude journal publishing. The 49 accepted papers formed a very strong technical program covering a range of topics from core theoretical foundations to practical innovations in advertising and finance. Topics covered included areas of typical strength for the conference like economic computations, mechanism design, cost sharing, online advertising, and auctions. Other topics included kidney exchanges, content moderation, peer prediction, voting, privacy, peer-to-peer payments, network formation, matching, prediction markets, and financial derivatives. Two papers shared the EC'11 Best Student Paper Award: "Polynomial-time Computation of Exact Correlated Equilibrium in Compact Games", by Albert Xin Jiang and Kevin Leyton-Brown, and "A Truthful Randomized Mechanism for Combinatorial Public Projects via Convex Optimization", by Shaddin Dughmi.
Vincent and Preston are the first co-editors, and we have lined up an exceptional and global editorial board. Felix Fischer has created the initial web site for the journal and the Manuscript Central service is now up and running and accepting our first submissions. We are thrilled to finally have a journal outlet for research at the intersection of computer science and economics, the first of its kind and a venue with significant demand. We are close to finalizing a formal EC Best Paper Award and we plan to draft an award for best Ph.D. dissertation at the intersection of computer science and economics. Our main challenge for next year is to maintain our strength in research at the intersection of economics and computer science and at the same time keep connected to practice, and include more application-related contributions in the conference program. Maintaining this balance and reaching out for opportunities in emerging areas will be a key focus of the conference officials for next year and beyond. SIGEVO FY’11 Annual Report July 2010- June 2011 Submitted by: Darrell Whitley, Chair OVERVIEW SIGEVO, the SIG on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, has an Executive Committee of 18 members, with elections held in odd-numbered years. Elections were held in spring 2011, with 6 positions on the committee being open for election. Three members of the board were reelected: U. O’Reilly, F. Rothlauf, L. Spector. Three new board members were elected: A. Auger, K. Stanley and M. Pelikan. The Executive Committee also voted on a new slate of officers. The previous officers were: Darrell Whitley (chair), John Koza (vice chair), Una-May O’Reilly (secretary), and Wolfgang Banzhaf (treasurer). The newly elected officers are Wolfgang Banzhaf (chair), Una-May O’Reilly (vice chair), Franz Rothlauf (treasurer) and Marc Schoenauer (secretary). Pier Luca Lanzi continues as editor of SIGEVO’s newsletter. A business meeting of the Executive Committee was held in Dublin, Ireland at the GECCO conference on July 7, 2011. The 2010 GECCO conference in Portland had excellent attendance. The conference was also a financial success. SIGEVO continues to have a very solid budget and healthy reserves well beyond what is required by ACM. Our 2011 GECCO conference in Dublin received almost 700 submissions, with attendance of approximately 600 individuals. The acceptance rate was approximately 38 percent. The GECCO conference is attempting to alternate between holding the conference in the US and outside the US. Attendance is usually greater in odd numbered years when the conference is held outside the US. There are at least two reasons for this. Approximately half of our attendees are based in Europe. The second reason is that there were more competing conferences in even numbered years. The 2012 conference will be held in Philadelphia. We expect attendance to be approximately 400. Early planning is underway for 2013, when we plan to hold the conference in Europe again. The General Chair for 2012 will be Jason Moore (Dartmouth) and the editor-in-chief will be Terry Soule (University of Idaho). Recent surveys of our community indicate that approximately 40 percent of our members are based in North America, 40 percent are based in Europe and 20 percent are based elsewhere. We have seen an increase in attendance from Latin America. The Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA) meeting was held in January 2011 in Austria and was organized by Hans Georg Beyer and William Langdon. We have been trying for four years to obtain an agreement between MIT Press and ACM to include our key journals in the ACM digital library. Last year, the journal Evolutionary Computation became part of the ACM digital library, including both back issues as well as the most recent issue of the journal. Discussions are under way concerning how to make Evolutionary Computation a joint publication of both MIT Press and ACM. Another issue of concern to our community is that there are virtually no keywords in the ACM list of keywords to describe research in our field. Thus, every paper more or less uses the keywords AI and Search. We have raised this issue three times with ACM; the issue was raised again at the last SIG Governing Board meeting but it is an issue still unresolved. SIGEVO will continue to seek innovative ways to help its members garner success in their professional work, and to expand the influence of the field, including attracting new members and sponsoring additional professional activities. Our goal is to be the highest quality conference in the field of evolutionary computation. We are the most selective conference in the field, and because of this, we attract the strongest papers of any conference in the field. AWARDS: We now have an “Impact Award” in place. It was approved earlier this year by ACM. The award will recognize 1 to 3 papers a year that were published in the GECCO conference 10 years earlier which are both highly cited and deemed to be seminal by the SIGEVO Executive Committee. This year the Impact Award was given to Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimiser with Breeding and Subpopulations. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2001. M. Lovbjerg, T.K. Rasmussen and T. Krink Several competitions were held at GECCO-2011. Awards were presented at the SIGEVO Annual Meeting to winners of the Human Competitive Awards (the “Humies”), sponsored by Third Millennium On-Line Products, Inc. The prizes include 10,000 dollars provided by Third Millennium. First prize, second prize, and a third prize were announced at the SIGEVO Annual Meeting on July 10, 2011 There is now a process in place so that select papers from the Humie Awards and the GECCO best papers award will be recommended to the Communications of the ACM for possible publication. The 2011 “Human Competitive” Gold Medal Award GA-FreeCell: Evolving Solvers for the Game of FreeCell. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2011.
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Condensed Abstract We evolve heuristics to guide staged deepening search for the hard game of FreeCell, obtaining top-notch solvers for this NP-Complete, human-challenging puzzle. We first devise several novel heuristic measures and then employ a coevolutionary genetic algorithm to find efficient combinations of these heuristics. Our results significantly surpass the best published solver to date by three distinct measures: 1) Number of search nodes is reduced by 87%; 2) time to solution is reduced by 93%; and 3) average solution length is reduced by 41%. Our top solver is the best published FreeCell player to date, solving 98% of the standard Microsoft 32K problem set, and also able to beat high-ranking human players. Select Best Papers from the GECCO Conference From the “Genetic Algorithms” Track How Crossover Helps in Pseudo-Boolean Optimization; T. Koetzing, D. Sudholt, and M. Theile From the “Genetic Programming” Track Rethinking Multilevel Selection in Genetic Programming; S. Wu and W. Banzhaf SIGGRAPH FY’11 Annual Report July 2010 – June 2011 Submitted by: G. Scott Owen, President For each section of the report, the name of the person responsible for that activity is given. That person is the Chair of the responsible committee, for example for the Chapters report, Scott Lang is the Chair of the Chapters Committee. ACM SIGGRAPH FY11 Budget Report (Jeff Jortner, Treasurer) Opening Fund Balance: $2,337,885 Closing Fund Balance: $2,488,075 Income Areas ------------------------- Dues: $230K Publications (includes ACM Digital Library): $339K SIGGRAPH Video Review Sales: $70K Contributions: $5K Conference Revenue: $7,546K
-------------------------- Executive Committee: $187K Publications: $107.5K Education: $13K Information Services: $37K Chapters: $32K Arts: $1K Communications: $44K Small Conferences & External Relations: $2K Conference Expenses: $7,236K
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